Blast kills 1, wounds 9 north of Hilla

BABEL / IraqiNews.com: One civilian man was killed and nine others wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off inside an internal transport garage north of al-Hilla city on Sunday, a local police source in Babel said. “A home-made IED ripped through a garage in the area of al-Qarya al-Aasriya, al-Iskandariya district, (50 km) north of Hilla, leaving one civilian man killed and nine others wounded,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The explosion caused severe damage to a number of civilian vehicles,” the source added. Hilla, the capital city of Babel province, lies 100 km south of Baghdad. AmR (P) 1